On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:07 +0100, Adrian Stott wrote: > However, let's assume that it *is* government policy to help those on > low incomes go boating, and that it has found some money to spend > achieving that. How should that money be spent to best effect? > > Reducing the price of boating (e.g. navigation charges, moorings, > inspections) is a bad approach, because that reduces the price for > everyone irrespective of his income. By doing this, the government > would in effect subsidise every boater, including those who are able > to afford market prices.
But this is the approach taken to allow access by those on low incomes to other areas of our culture and heritage, e.g. free/subsidised entry into museums art galleries etc. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
